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My concern is to stop the unfairness of gerrymandering on both sides.
I can't help it if the republicans are the current poster child for the problem.
Democrats can go first and serve as a role model.
With the current house & senate?!?
If the national GOP had a brain in its collective head, they'd study recent history. What led to their ascendancy when they achieved any form of electoral success? Seriously. Did Ronald Reagan pander to the liberals? Or did he TAKE THEM ON? Did he spend lots of time agreeing with them or did he expose the hideous leftist logic behind the Democrat Parody agenda?
So, once again, the question is urgent, pressing and quite real: What led to the GOP ascendancy when they achieved any form of electoral success?
Hint: it was NOT acting like a pale version of the Dim Party.
Democrats can go first and serve as a role model.
With the current house & senate?!?
Redistricting is a state level function. The composition of Congress has nothing to do with it.
So... "The Democrats do it too, so republicans need to perfect the game." is the answer.
So much for American spine.
If the national GOP had a brain in its collective head, they'd study recent history. What led to their ascendancy when they achieved any form of electoral success? Seriously. Did Ronald Reagan pander to the liberals? Or did he TAKE THEM ON? Did he spend lots of time agreeing with them or did he expose the hideous leftist logic behind the Democrat Parody agenda?
So, once again, the question is urgent, pressing and quite real: What led to the GOP ascendancy when they achieved any form of electoral success?
Hint: it was NOT acting like a pale version of the Dim Party.
Your POS reagan was a failure. The most corrupt administration in history with over 150 felony convictions eventually pardoned by another POS president. Putting weapons in Iranian hands while whining about terrorism. Making USA a debtor nation for the first time.
Did you tea bag posters just get out of high school or are you from foreign countries to not know these things? I myself opt that you just fell off the turnip truck.
If the national GOP had a brain in its collective head, they'd study recent history. What led to their ascendancy when they achieved any form of electoral success? Seriously. Did Ronald Reagan pander to the liberals? Or did he TAKE THEM ON? Did he spend lots of time agreeing with them or did he expose the hideous leftist logic behind the Democrat Parody agenda?
So, once again, the question is urgent, pressing and quite real: What led to the GOP ascendancy when they achieved any form of electoral success?
Hint: it was NOT acting like a pale version of the Dim Party.
Your POS reagan was a failure. The most corrupt administration in history with over 150 felony convictions eventually pardoned by another POS president. Putting weapons in Iranian hands while whining about terrorism. Making USA a debtor nation for the first time.
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And who are we currently selling weapons to in Syria?
Without gerrymandering, Maxine Waters would never have been elected to Congress.
And who are we currently selling weapons to in Syria?
Er... "selling"? you mean "giving" don't you?
Essentially, the state would be cut into simple rectangles.
Nice in theory but I cannot envision a scenario where the duopoly would surrender this handy tool for distorting democracy, methinks that ship has sailed and the founders missed it.
And who are we currently selling weapons to in Syria?
Er... "selling"? you mean "giving" don't you?
Good point, I forgot liberals like to share.
In reality, the Tea Party is the sole potential salvation for the GOP. The national GOP, that miscreant collection of weak-willed losers, are more interested in staying in power than in doing the heavy lifting of governance. And they aren't very intelligent about retaining (or reclaiming) power, at that.
The GOP is too busy attempting to placate the liberal media and the false portrayal it offers of the "mood" of the electorate to bother attending to the logic of reality and history.
The institutional GOP "leadership" tries to "sanction" the conservatives. All the better to keep a version of Party discipline which is in keeping with their own myopic views on what they need to do to get votes.
But there's nobody tripping over themselves to vote for the national GOP candidates when the national Party has no discernible distinguishing principles.
If the fucking dishonest liberally-biased media claims that "the Hispanic vote" is the be all and end all of getting elections won, then the GOP dutifully "reaches out" to the Hispanic population by caving-in on matters of immigration reform. Does it work? Will THAT help get the "Hispanic vot"e to perform a sea change shift from the Dim Party to the GOP?
Of course not.
All the GOP manages to accomplish is to LOOK like snake oil salesmen to the very constituency they are hoping to woo. And they get what SHOULD be their base to lose faith in what the GOP stands for. The GOP-base voters might as well vote for a Dim since there are fewer and fewer substantive differences between the two national Parties. Or, on election days, the GOP base just stays home, more and more, which effectively concedes the field to the opposition. It turns out that it's not such a great idea to take "counsel" or "advice" from the FakeyStarkeys of the world, and their media stooges.
If the national GOP had a brain in its collective head, they'd study recent history. What led to their ascendancy when they achieved any form of electoral success? Seriously. Did Ronald Reagan pander to the liberals? Or did he TAKE THEM ON? Did he spend lots of time agreeing with them or did he expose the hideous leftist logic behind the Democrat Parody agenda.
So, once again, the question is urgent, pressing and quite real: What led to the GOP ascendancy when they achieved any form of electoral success?
Hint: it was NOT acting like a pale version of the Dim Party.
Do that and you alienate the single largest voting block of the GOP-Social Conservatives.In reality, the Tea Party is the sole potential salvation for the GOP. The national GOP, that miscreant collection of weak-willed losers, are more interested in staying in power than in doing the heavy lifting of governance. And they aren't very intelligent about retaining (or reclaiming) power, at that.
The GOP is too busy attempting to placate the liberal media and the false portrayal it offers of the "mood" of the electorate to bother attending to the logic of reality and history.
The institutional GOP "leadership" tries to "sanction" the conservatives. All the better to keep a version of Party discipline which is in keeping with their own myopic views on what they need to do to get votes.
But there's nobody tripping over themselves to vote for the national GOP candidates when the national Party has no discernible distinguishing principles.
If the fucking dishonest liberally-biased media claims that "the Hispanic vote" is the be all and end all of getting elections won, then the GOP dutifully "reaches out" to the Hispanic population by caving-in on matters of immigration reform. Does it work? Will THAT help get the "Hispanic vot"e to perform a sea change shift from the Dim Party to the GOP?
Of course not.
All the GOP manages to accomplish is to LOOK like snake oil salesmen to the very constituency they are hoping to woo. And they get what SHOULD be their base to lose faith in what the GOP stands for. The GOP-base voters might as well vote for a Dim since there are fewer and fewer substantive differences between the two national Parties. Or, on election days, the GOP base just stays home, more and more, which effectively concedes the field to the opposition. It turns out that it's not such a great idea to take "counsel" or "advice" from the FakeyStarkeys of the world, and their media stooges.
If the national GOP had a brain in its collective head, they'd study recent history. What led to their ascendancy when they achieved any form of electoral success? Seriously. Did Ronald Reagan pander to the liberals? Or did he TAKE THEM ON? Did he spend lots of time agreeing with them or did he expose the hideous leftist logic behind the Democrat Parody agenda.
So, once again, the question is urgent, pressing and quite real: What led to the GOP ascendancy when they achieved any form of electoral success?
Hint: it was NOT acting like a pale version of the Dim Party.
Very true. The GOP should not be a duplicate of the dems but they look more and more like it every year.
I would disagree with the social aspect though and they are the only real divide between the GOP and the Dems at the moment. The GOP needs to abandon that track and get back to the actual values that the party is supposed to stand for. The STATES can take care of the social aspects; the federal government needs to get back to what it was meant to do rather than running our lives.
In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.
Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The TEA Party wing of the Republicans may not owe its existence to Gerrymandering, but the tail-wagging-the-dog power it holds over the party and the nation is a direct result.
The Republican insistence on nominating conservative candidates who are right-wing buffoons in the general elections is a direct result of Gerrymandering.
Gerrymandering may be protecting the ideology of the Right, but it's rendering the Republicans impotent in national elections.
Gerrymandering is THE reason that Americans have a less than 10% approval rating for Congress.
It's the REPUBLICANS who're being hurt by Republican Gerrymandering in the long run.
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In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts.
Gerrymandering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The TEA Party wing of the Republicans may not owe its existence to Gerrymandering, but the tail-wagging-the-dog power it holds over the party and the nation is a direct result.
The Republican insistence on nominating conservative candidates who are right-wing buffoons in the general elections is a direct result of Gerrymandering.
Gerrymandering may be protecting the ideology of the Right, but it's rendering the Republicans impotent in national elections.
Gerrymandering is THE reason that Americans have a less than 10% approval rating for Congress.
It's the REPUBLICANS who're being hurt by Republican Gerrymandering in the long run.
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They got lucky and won seats in 2010, which allowed them to set the voting districts after the census was done. Their vision of what they should look like will give them artificial wins from at least a decade. The demographics will change even more by the next census in 2020, which will be a Presidential year, which means more liberal voters.
That year, and the next election after that, will be the beginning of the end of the GOP. They will be like the 2006 & 2008 elections, but even more so, as the dying rump of older white conservatism gets the electoral beat down it deserves.
